Home Health & Hospice Week

Compliance:

Medicare Cracks Down On F2F Documentation

The other shoe has dropped for this burdensome regulatory requirement. You can watch your Medicare reimbursement circle the drain if your patients’ face-to-face physician encounter documentation isn’t meeting exacting standards. Earlier this year, the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program began denying an increasing number of home health claims for not meeting face-to-face documentation requirements, report HHH Medicare Administrative Contractors [...]
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